Each day in the winter, Okotoks returns 80 to 90 per cent of the water it draws out of the Sheep River. Residents of the burgeoning town use an average of 295 litres of water each day, pay extra if they want green lawns in the summer and face regular restrictions on water use.

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A host of Alberta towns and natural features have long borne names reflecting the province’s First Nations heritage. These are just a few. Nihahi Ridge: The name of the mountain 80 kilometres west of Calgary in the Front Range of the Rockies means rocky in the Stoney language. The 2,545-metre edifice is marked by a […]

One of the fastest growing communities in Canada, Chestermere has transformed from a summer village into a vibrant urban centre in just two decades. City officials have pursued an aggressive economic development strategy in recent years to bring more jobs and businesses. A new light industrial park expected to generate $1 million in tax revenue […]

Long-time Calgary criminal lawyer Christopher (C.D.) Evans and publisher Lorene Shyba have co-edited an incredible collection of memorable cases by 20 prominent Canadian lawyers and prosecutors that have had significant impacts on their careers.

Ask any soccer mom or hockey dad, “How’s the food at your local pitch/arena?” and you’ll usually receive a grimaced face in reply. Most of us have stared at the greasy, spinning hotdogs and the questionable nacho cheese under heat lamps and wondered if our health was in danger.

To use language that’s become familiar in an age when authorities regularly uncover terrorist threats, a former military intelligence officer’s plan to attack a downtown Calgary tower that houses a Veterans Affairs office had gone far beyond the aspirational stage. When the RCMP arrested the 45-year-old man at his parents’ Springbank-area acreage in January, they found two firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, tactical equipment, bomb-making materials and a stew of deadly chemicals.

There is an unmistakable charm, a comfort that’s inherent with living in a smaller town. That’s doubly so if that community boasts big city amenities, lots of wide open space and stellar views of the Rockies, along with plenty of cutting-edge ideas when it comes to urban planning and sustainability.

When the Canadian Finals Rodeo gets underway Wednesday night in Edmonton, Calgary area fans will be closely watching the bull pen. That’s because more than half of this year’s 12 bull riding finalists come from the region.

Facing a lengthy second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of Amy Marie Sands at a southeast garage party more than two years ago, Jesse George Hill pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter with a firearm. However, Hill, 28, did not admit to being the shooter, but rather a party to the incident in which Sands, 27, was struck by a stray bullet intended for another target inside the garage following a dispute over drugs and derogatory comments allegedly made to him earlier on the morning of Aug. 31, 2012.

The Town of Okotoks is asking for the province’s help to send Calgary water flowing south. On Wednesday, the town announced it’s applied for a $36-million grant from Alberta’s Water for Life program, which would cover 90 per cent of the estimated cost of a water pipeline from Calgary to Okotoks.

MILLARVILLE — Ranchers, acreage owners and town residents in the foothills say they feel threatened as grizzly bears move eastward — with some landowners even asking the province for the right to shoot the species that’s still considered at risk in Alberta. They’re concerned they are losing cows and calves to grizzly bears frequenting their properties, rancher Gary Akins said.

Two people were sent to hospital, one in serious condition, after a pickup truck and a car collided south of Calgary on Wednesday night. Okotoks RCMP, fire crews and EMS were called to the intersection of Highway 2A and Dunbow Road at around 9:15 p.m.

There’s nothing quite like the pressure of deadlines. Rodeo cowboys faced a big one on the weekend, during the last week of regular season action on both sides of the border. At stake were berths in the rich playoff season, including November’s Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton and December’s Wrangler National Finals in the U.S.

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